Encore Adds Brundidge as Director of Quality & Innovation

A new team member brings deep experience and expertise in respiratory care to the growing respiratory technology company.

Encore Healthcare has named Sarah Brundidge, MSc, RRT, AE-C, CPFT, as director of Quality & Innovation.

Brundidge, who holds a master’s degree in respiratory from Rush University, brings deep experience in respiratory care, including hospital, HME, the medical device industry, and remote patient monitoring.

Most recently, she worked at Propeller Health, where she served as a senior customer success manager. Prior to Propeller, she served as the director of Lung Health for the Wisconsin chapter of the American Lung Association, as well as president of the Wisconsin Society for Respiratory Care.

The addition of Brundidge is part of a wider effort at Encore to add clinical and software innovation and expertise to further its efforts to refine its outcome-based respiratory and sleep platform, Nexus, according to Zach Gantt, CEO of Encore Healthcare.

“Sarah brings a whole new level of clinical expertise to an already clinically-focused organization,” Gantt said,

Encore is currently expanding its outcome software and services business and now reaches patients in all 50 states, with more than 60,000 patients, 800,000 assessments, and 30 million data points.

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David Kopf is the Publisher HME Business, DME Pharmacy and Mobility Management magazines. He was Executive Editor of HME Business and DME Pharmacy from 2008 to 2023. Follow him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/dkopf/ and on Twitter at @postacutenews.

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